Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under him a school of applied science has been added. He plans further new schools of commerce, social sciences, agriculture, diplomacy. His aim is to make academic standards high and broad enough to attract students, whatever their national background. Of the French-English conflict in Canada he says, "How it will work out is in the hands of Divine Providence, but the situation is getting better among educated people...
...school should be thrown heavily against all forms of snobbery," and in favor of the equal dignity of protozoologists, shoe salesmen and senators. Only then will "a boy or girl [choose] a career . . . because of a real interest, not in order to climb into a better economic or social group...
Conant gags on the phrase "higher education," with its undemocratic implication that anybody who doesn't go to a university or four-year college is "forever on a lower plane." To rescue the colleges and universities from the student who enrolls only because of this social blackmail, Conant favors local two-year colleges, such as some states-notably California-have already set up. He would authorize them to grant a new degree of B.G.S. (Bachelor of General Studies)-"not a B.A.," says Conant, "but something that sounds just as near like it as you can come." Then, Conant thinks...
...would be under great pressure from the Old Guard of the Republican Party such men as Representatives Hallock, Taber, and Martin. Just as housing and education have suffered in New York, in the nation the result would be the undermining, and possibly the scrapping, of many of the great social and economic agencies built up over the past sixteen years. This is what Mr. Dewey's efficiency would mean in Washington. And this is what makes the Governor's campaign difficult to understand. It is difficult to see where his proposed Department of Social Welfare would fit into such...
...minimum wage and full employment legislation, for an adequate housing program, and for a Fair Employment Practices Act. His subsequent domestic policies--and his 62 vetoes--have followed in the same direction. Mr. Truman has pushed for a liberal displaced persons bill, for strong civil rights legislation, for social security expansion, and for adequate curbs on inflation. Governor Dewey has said little or nothing about most of these measures, although some of them are in effect in New York State...